Shop owners going with the grain for breakfast

An old adage suggests people should eat like a king at breakfast, the most important meal of the day for overall health and good nutrition. Yet many city dwellers live at a fast pace and often skip breakfast, or simply grab a snack.

Two young women, Klara Dlouha and Zhang Qian, saw both a health issue and a business opportunity, and they are eager to provide a better breakfast alternative: muesli and granola.

Dlouha is from the Czech Republic, and Zhang is Chinese from Shaanxi province. They met in Beijing in 2011, and last October they opened the small shop Miss Muesli in a hutong near Yonghe Lama Temple.